Play VOB Files in PowerPoint aka Convert VOB to AVI without extra software
Got a batch of VOB files you want to play in PowerPoint? Convert them to a format Power Point can use by doing the following.
1. Open up Windows Movie Maker (included software on XP / Vista machines)
2. Select "Videos" under Import (on left column in Vista)
3. Navigate to folder with your VOB files and change file type to "all" in selection window.
4. Select your VOB file.
5. Drag to storyboard
6. Select "Publish Movie" under File menu
7. Follow the prompts and select "publish movie to this computer", choose name and location for file output, and select "best quality for playback on my computer".
8. After selecting Publish, your computer will process the video
9. You will now have an AVI file
10. Go to PowerPoint, select insert movie and select your AVI movie
If this does not work, an alternative is to download VirtualDub-MPEG2 from:
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/stable/index.html
and use this program to convert VOB to AVI
For some reason, when I import the .vob file to Windows Movie Maker, only the audio is included. Any suggestions?
Here's how to do it in Windows 7:
Open the .VOB file with Windows media player.
When it is playing click on the show library option (small icon on top right of playing screen)
Once in library right click on the bottom area of the library window (where all of the file details are shown)
Select File>Save As and give the file a new name and add .wmv at the end
This will save the file as a WMV file which can be embeded into powerpoint presentations.
NB. You may find it saves it to your MUSIC library rather than videos.
This doesn't work in XP version of Movie Maker (does not import VOBs)
Hmm, I thought it worked in both. Did you make sure to use the latest version of WMM available for XP, and set files to "all" ?